Throughout Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, Hamlet had motive to avenge his father’s death and kill Claudius. Gaining an abundance of proof that Claudius was indeed the culprit who killed his father, he did not take action against him right away. His tragic flaw was what held him back: his overthinking ultimately killed him in the end. Hamlet’s failure to act right away aligns with the central ideas action vs. inaction and mortality. His internal conflicts further his realization with his own mortality that justifies his actions and inactions. In a soliloquy of Hamlet’s, he questions life and all the pain and suffering that is acquired from it: To be or not to be, that is the question:
Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and
Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and